Turtle API does not include the ability to push/pull Items

[z256z]

Going into lua and wrapping any turtle you see this:

There appears to not be an option for "pullItems() or pushItems()" despite having an inventory of their own. Unless I have missed it somewhere.... is there a way to push/pull items from a turtle to say... another turtle? without using a peripheral in between like a barrel or chest?

[zyxkad]

Use turtle.select and turtle.drop

[z256z]

No. Turtle > Modem > Turtle.
There is no way of transfering items this was

[Lupus590]

add a chest or other compatible inventory to the network and use it as an in-between for moving things between the two turtles
turtles can be the target of a push and pull method even though they don't have the method on them

chest.pullItems("turtle_1", ...)
chest.pushItems("turtle_2", ...)

[z256z]

Wouldn't it make more sense to just add pull/push to turtles to avoid adding another inventory to the network? Seems a bit odd that a turtle has the perfect inventory for this and yet cannot pass items through itself...

[SirEdvin]

The source of this issue is how generic peripherals interact with regular ones.
Basically, if you implement regular peripheral for anything, generic peripheral is overwritten and get lost. And CC:T currently doesn't provide any simple way to just attach inventory methods back